Treatise on the art of knitting, with a history of the knitting loom: comprising an interesting account of its origin, and of its recent wonderful improvements (1861)
Aiken, Jonas B · Franklin, N.H., Pub. by the inventor · leaf 39
.). The most ingenious piece of mechanism we have seen in many a day isJ. B. Aikens Family Knitting Machine. It is a greater invention thanthe sewing machine, and stands next to it in usefulness. The amount oflabor it is destined to save those who have to do the knitting for large fam-ilies is… … Price, securely packed for transportation, with its appurtenances, 31 AIKENS PORTABLE KNITTING MACHINE.
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